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3/04

PORTRAIT OF A MODERN METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY: HOW UCF IS DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIES THROUGH THE GROWTH AND MANAGEMENT OF FULLY ONLINE PROGRAMS AND BLENDED COURSES
The adoption of distance education at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has brought about significant changes in the way students learn and organize their education, as well as in the way faculty teach and organize their job responsibilities. Additionally, proponents of distance education at UCF claim that distance education has significantly transformed UCF at the institutional level, causing a shift in strategic planning initiatives in unprecedented ways within its relatively short history. MORE

NOTES ON TRAINING FACULTY TO TEACH ONLINE
When we spoke with the folks at UCF about how they train faculty to teach and organize both M and W courses, we got two interesting responses that we thought were important to note. MORE

SAVING SPACE AND DOLLARS WITH FULLY ONLINE AND BLENDED COURSES AT UCF
According to Steven Sorg, UCF’s assistant vice president and director of distributed learning, on-campus efficiencies, as well as convenience to students, are achieved through M courses that blend face-to-face and Web-based instruction. However, while M courses have grown steadily, he adds that they have not taken off as he had first expected. MORE

A MARKET UNDER-SERVED
As noted in a "UBS Online Education Sourcebook" published this month, the "addressable" market for prospective higher education online learners in the U.S. totals about 17 million people, aged 25 to 44, who earn between $35,000 and $75,000, are married with children, work full time, and have access to the Internet. MORE

ANNOUNCING ONLINETEACHERED.COM
Current and prospective K-12 teachers, administrators and paraprofessionals can go to OnlineTeacherEd.com (OTE) to find which regionally accredited colleges and universities in the U.S. are offering teacher-education degree and certificate programs in a distance-education format. MORE

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